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fromKotaku
4 days ago

Attack On Titan Studio Caught With Generative AI In Latest Anime

Wit Studio confirmed the use of generative AI in the production of Ascendance of a Bookworm's opening sequence.
fromInverse
4 days ago

How An Eerie New Thriller Revolutionizes The Video Game Movie

Kawamura found ways to give Exit 8 an emotional center that the game lacked while still capturing the uncanny experience of walking down the seemingly endless tiled hallway.
Independent films
Video games
fromFilmmaker Magazine
4 days ago

Let's Play: Genki Kawamura and Jiro Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema

Genki Kawamura adapts the indie video game into a film, merging artistry with box office potential in a unique horror narrative.
Games
fromGameSpot
5 days ago

Tomodachi Life Fans Are Already Running Wild With Its Character Creator

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream features a robust character-creation tool, but Nintendo's anti-image-sharing policy limits online sharing of creations.
#anime
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago
Fashion & style

Now Is the Perfect Time to Dive Into the Wacky World of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'

Television
fromIndieWire
1 week ago

5 Anime Series to Check Out This Spring

The anime industry experiences a crowded debut season with numerous shows launching simultaneously, making it challenging to discern standout series.
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago
Fashion & style

Now Is the Perfect Time to Dive Into the Wacky World of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'

Video games
fromGame Informer
5 days ago

Exit 8 Director Genki Kawamura Discusses Adapting The Game, Narrative Inspirations, And Advice From Shigeru Miyamoto

The Exit 8 is a horror game that challenges players to identify anomalies in a looping subway station.
Books
fromAnOther
2 weeks ago

Mieko Kawakami's New Novel Exposes the Tokyo Underworld of the 90s

Sisters in Yellow portrays a teenage girl's descent into the Japanese underworld after her mother disappears, exploring themes of loneliness and class struggle.
DC food
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Street Fighter 6's Incest Storyline Saga Just Got Worse, Somehow

Capcom will revise text in Street Fighter 6 regarding Alex's relationship with Patricia due to its controversial nature.
Television
fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

Watch the trailer for Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell anime series

The upcoming The Ghost in the Shell anime features a nostalgic art style reminiscent of the original manga.
DC food
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Netflix's Bloodiest Anime Adaptation Is About To Introduce A Crucial Rivalry

The second season of Netflix's Devil May Cry series will focus on Dante and Vergil's complex relationship amid a conflict between Earth and Hell.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Dragon Quest 10 Is Getting A Google-Powered Chatbot Slime NPC

Square Enix is partnering with Google to integrate its AI large language model Gemini into Dragon Quest X, creating a Slime character that players can chat with. This character will respond with AI-generated text, offering tips, tricks, and advice as players navigate the game.
Games
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
4 weeks ago

Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow - Smashing Magazine

Design quality depends on emotional pacing and flow management, not just visual elements. Successful products guide users through emotional states coherently, while poor design creates emotional conflicts through misplaced elements.
#anime-adaptation
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Scarlet review Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep nothingness'

Mamoru Hosoda's anime adaptation of Hamlet, Scarlet, features stunning visuals but suffers from incoherent storytelling, arbitrary world-building, and heavy-handed philosophical messaging that undermines its narrative impact.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Scarlet review Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep nothingness'

Mamoru Hosoda's anime adaptation of Hamlet, Scarlet, features stunning visuals but suffers from incoherent storytelling, arbitrary world-building, and heavy-handed philosophical messaging that undermines its narrative impact.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Hooked by Asako Yuzuki review follow-up to global hit Butter

Both are 30, an age which in Yuzuki's telling spells disaster in Japan for unmarried women who are no longer girls. During her long office hours, Eriko becomes addicted to Shoko's pseudonymous, self-deprecating blog The Diary of Hallie B, the World's Worst Wife, and contrives to accidentally-on-purpose meet the blogger at a cafe Shoko mentions in one of her posts.
Books
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A young girl is knocked over at Tokyo crossing what's behind Japan's bumping' trend?

Japan experiences a growing phenomenon of deliberate shoving incidents in public spaces, attributed to gender dynamics and modern life stress, with perpetrators of both sexes targeting unsuspecting victims.
OMG science
fromGameSpot
1 month ago

The Search For The One Piece Has Turned Into A Real-World Quest

Manga creator Eiichiro Oda sealed the secret to One Piece in a capsule at the ocean floor 651 meters deep to celebrate 600 million sales worldwide, sparking global treasure-hunting efforts.
DC food
fromVulture
1 month ago

One Piece Is Charting Its Own Course

Netflix's One Piece adaptation successfully translates the manga's cartoonish tone and complex cast into live-action while strategically reordering source material events to enhance storytelling coherence.
Television
fromInverse
1 month ago

A New Anime Adaptation Could Make Up For Netflix's Biggest Mistake

Live-action anime adaptations are improving through streaming platforms, though Shinichirō Watanabe's previous Cowboy Bebop adaptation failed to capture the original's essence despite his involvement.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Game Adds Playable Tofu After Complaints About Female Protag

A vending machine tycoon game developer added a sentient tofu character as a playable option after receiving complaints about the female protagonist, offering an alternative without requiring extensive new character development.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

This Artist Creates Superhero and Comic Watercolors With Traditional Japanese Motifs

Justin Bieber for Calvin Klein Spring 2015 Ad Campaign In A Parallel Universe: Artist Exposes Sexism By Switching Up Gender Roles In Old-School Ads Russian Blogger Makes Parodies Out Of Celebrity Photos, And More Than 20,000 Followers On Instagram Approve 10 Famous Movie Titles Written Using Negative Space The World of Modern Graphic Design & Typography by Kyle Kemink Chinese Tech Companies Hiring 'Pretty' Girls to Motivate Male Employees by Chatting, Playing Ping Pong and Buying them Breakfast
Typography
Games
fromJezebel
1 month ago

The latest Umamusume: Pretty Derby is for the horsegirls (and guys)

Umamusume: Pretty Derby expanded from Japan-exclusive niche to worldwide phenomenon, combining anime horse girls with real Japanese racing history through games, shows, and films that treat absurd premises with genuine earnestness.
LGBT
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

The Answer to That 'Heated Rivalry' Question Everyone Keeps Asking? It's Decades-Old

Women, especially anime/manga fans, drive interest in gay male romance through the women-created Boys' Love tradition, shaping works like Heated Rivalry.
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago

From Medieval Moon Princess to Anime Icon: The Many Lives of Princess Kaguya - Medievalists.net

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter tells of an elderly bamboo cutter who discovers a tiny, radiant girl inside a glowing stalk of bamboo. He and his wife raise her as their own daughter, naming her Kaguya-hime. As she grows, she becomes extraordinarily beautiful, attracting suitors from across the land. Five noblemen seek her hand in marriage, but she tests them by assigning each an impossible task-such as retrieving the Buddha's stone begging bowl or the jewelled branch of Mount Hōrai. Each suitor fails.
History
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

MG Raiser Doubles Up Your Manga Shelf Without Hiding the Back Row - Yanko Design

MG Raiser from MangaGuardian is a tiny shelf adapter that takes that double-row habit and makes it less painful. It is a compact L-shaped stand that lets you display two rows of manga in the same footprint, with the back row raised just enough to stay visible. Simple plastic geometry aimed squarely at overcrowded shelves, it solves a niche problem that anyone with more than 20 volumes has quietly dealt with at some point.
Gadgets
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Adrian Tomine's "Post-Vacation"

A winter subway scene features a suntanned rider back from a beach getaway, provoking envy, perceived gloating, and a wry, apologetic recognition.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus

Virtual Cram School Wish High is a new online school by Tokyo-based company Luminaris. According to the publication, all teachers are "active VTubers," meaning streamers who use digital avatars to represent themselves instead of showing their real faces. Tuition at the online academy is the equivalent of around $63 per course per month, on subjects including mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, world history, Japanese history, and geography.
Online learning
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

'Scarlet' Tells a Classical Revenge Story - Just Don't Call It a Shakespeare Adaptation

Scarlet reimagines Hamlet as a gender-swapped revenge tale that becomes a purgatorial journey questioning whether cycles of vengeance are worth perpetuating.
Television
fromInverse
1 month ago

'Devil May Cry' Season 2 Is Giving Dante A Big Upgrade

Netflix's Devil May Cry season two introduces Dante's iconic dual-wielded handguns Ebony and Ivory, created by gunsmith Nell Goldstein, marking a significant addition to his arsenal for the upcoming season.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys

We can now look back on November 28, 2025, as the start of a mass-psychosis event. In an era of neo-puritanical television slop, a fresh, horny breeze swept in from Canada: Heated Rivalry, a six-episode series about two professional hockey rivals turned lovers, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, stirred something deep in the American psyche. Ordinary taxpaying adult women, many of them my friends, suddenly lost control of their faculties over "the gay hockey show."
Television
Games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Persona Artist Kazuma Kaneko Reveals New AI Art Card Game

Kazuma Kaneko's new Switch card game, Kazuma Kaneko's Tsukuyomi, launches April 23 with AI-generated art and includes 3,600 curated AI-produced cards.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise

Koike's Lupin III film showcases striking animation and a darker manga-inspired style but has a thin plot and offers little for casual viewers.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Ikoku Nikki Is The Must-Watch Anime Of The Season

You've got your obvious bangers, such as Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and Jujutsu Kaisen, but there are at least twenty weekly releases currently airing that are worth watching. Hell's Paradise, Fate/Strange Fake, Sentenced to Be a Hero, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Trigun Stargaze, Golden Kamuy - I could go on, and that's without including the stuff that just finished airing, such as Spy x Family and To Your Eternity.
Television
Video games
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Preview: With 'Monster Hunter Stories 3,' a spin-off spreads its wings

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is a multi-platform JRPG emphasizing elite riders, political storytelling, and evolved turn-based Monstie combat.
fromPolygon
8 months ago

Square Enix announces new HD-2D action-JRPG

According to the trailer, the game takes place in a land called Philabieldia that's overrun by beasts, where humans must use a spell of safekeeping to keep their only remaining city, the Kingdom of Huther, safe from invasion. The titular Elliot is tasked with exploring a set of newfound ruins beyond the walls alongside his fairy companion Faie. Unknown to them, though, they will come across a door that will take them on a journey that spans thousands of years.
Games
Television
fromKotaku
1 month ago

A New Evangelion Series Is Coming Written By Nier's Director

A new Neon Genesis Evangelion series was announced for the 30th anniversary, with Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Toru Yatabe directing.
Video games
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's a loving mockery, because it's also who I am': the making of gaming's most pathetic character

Baby Steps uses deliberate frustration and an inept, awkward protagonist to transform player irritation into empathy, identification, and unexpected affection.
Games
fromInverse
2 months ago

'Yakuza Kiwami 3' Is the Series' Boldest Remake Yet - And Its Most Divisive

Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a bold, ground-up remake that modernizes Yakuza 3 with Dragon Engine, rebuilt world, new combat, minigames, and significant story additions.
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